“The mission of The Women’s Fund is to benefit future generations; increase vital funding for programs that advance the economic, educational, physical, emotional, social, artistic and personal growth ...

For more than 35 years, Youth Today has published in-depth reporting on issues affecting youth, including foster care and child welfare, juvenile justice, youth with disabilities, education, ...

There’s a lot of blame to go around, from cellphones and social media to federal accountability policies. Gwenette Writer Sinclair/Youth Today In the last decade, achievement scores have been falling ...

Too often when youth workers apply to college, none of their valuable work experience counts. One solution lies in Credit for Prior Learning (CPL).

Homelessness and a lack of education for unaccompanied youth are intertwined. Young adults who do not finish high school or get a GED are 4.5 times more likely to experience homelessness than stably ...

For more than 25 years, national nonprofit Operation Warm has focused on a basic but often overlooked need: Ensuring children have access to brand-new coats, shoes and other essential apparel. At ...

Large youth-serving organizations could take advantage of a new federal education tax credit originally meant to establish a national voucher-like program.

In an evidence-based world, one recent landmark study of foster care would be enough to give America’s child welfare establishment second thoughts. Add to that a second study — with findings the study ...

Today’s youth are experiencing unprecedented levels of stress and anxiety. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 3.6% of adolescents ages 10-14 and 4.6% of those ages 15-19 have ...

For decades, schools across the country have invested heavily in literacy reform. New curricula, mandates and funding have reshaped classrooms, yet reading scores continue to decline for far too many ...

"American Progress" painting by John Gast. It depicts Manifest Destiny, the belief in westward expansion of the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Settlers are moving west, guided ...

About a decade ago, schools embraced a major shift in teaching and learning. Teachers swapped lectures for project-based lessons. Students built, designed and solved problems with their hands. We told ...